Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez was named yesterday the winner of the 2017 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. Ramírez has written more than 20 novels, including “Margarita, está linda la mar” (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea), which won Spain’s prestigious Alfaguara award in 1998. His work has been widely translated.  He has also received... - Read more

The writer Gonzalo Giner has obtained the XXV Fernando Novel Prize Lara with the work "The green mist". The Jury for this Award made the decision public during an award ceremony held at the Casa Guardiola in Seville. The novel is a fast-paced adventure, a moving ecologist plea, a hymn to conservationism and a great love story in the legendary African jungle. In the words of the author, « The green haze  It is a... - Read more

Eva García Sáenz de Urturi has obtained the Planeta 2020 Prize with the novel  Aquitaine. “ A medieval thriller, a tribute to The name of the rose and a Game of Thrones of what would later become Europe, ”said the author, who dedicated the award to the victims of the pandemic. “The world of culture will survive this pandemic, explain it to us and move forward. My characters have... - Read more

Marta Barrio won XVII Tusquets Novel Editors Award with Small firewood which, according to the unanimous verdict of the jury, is a “startling and surprisingly mature account of the dramatic experience of a young woman and her unexpectedly frustrated motherhood.” It is, according to the statement released by the publisher, a story that “maintains at all times a difficult balance between pain and the strength of not being... - Read more